Melina Riemer

Melina Riemer is a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the Department of Migration Law and Human Rights under Prof. Dr. Grażyna Baranowska. She studied law at the University of Münster and the University of Aalborg (Denmark), specializing in international law and public international law, and also completed specialized foreign language training in the field of common law. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in international law with a specialization in human rights from Utrecht University (Netherlands).
From spring 2023 through 2025, she served as a legal clerk at the Berlin Court of Appeal (Kammergericht), working, among other things, at a law firm specializing in immigration law and for the Border Justice Team at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR).

Her research focuses on European and international immigration law, European human rights protection—particularly in the context of border regimes and Europe’s external borders—Critical Legal Theory, and interdisciplinary approaches to critical migration studies and Critical Border Studies.